In case she's looking for something a bit more towards the travel and adventure part of her request, I cannot recommend highly enough "Shooting the Boh : A Woman's Voyage Down the Wildest River in Borneo" by Tracy Johnston.

First read this 5 years ago and it has really stayed with me. I devoured this story of rafting adventure/mid-adventure through tropical rainforest. A quick peek at my bookcrossing journal entry reveals I read this quickly over 3 late evenings, and had roommates complaining that my laughter was keeping them awake (also, apparently I cried "ouch" aloud in sympathy at one point).

GREAT armchair adventuring, and despite the mishaps of the trip, it didn't turn me off of the idea having my own Borneo adventure 2 years ago.

The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford are the funniest things I've ever read in my life. For pure fizzy pleasure you can pick up Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis.

I, too, loved the Jane Juska...

...and if you like travel you might want to take a look at Travels with my Aunt, Graham Greene. Delightful.

Amen to the Mitford recommendation above. You also might enjoy actress Claudia Shear's "Blown Sideways Through Life," a funny look at her succession of day jobs. Out in the same vein is Lauren Weedman's "A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body," a tour through her show biz experiences. And I have to say I REALLY enjoyed Sarah Silverman's forthcoming book, "The Bedwetter: Stories of Hope, Redemption and Pee," which comes out next week. If you're not a fan then it may not do much for you, but I was really laughing a lot, and I don't usually read celeb bios.

Back to travel, I might suggest Jane Christmas's "Incontinent on the Continent: My Mother, Her Walker, and Our Grand Tour of Italy." MIGHT suggest - as humor is a tricky business, and you might not like hers. Also "Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger," by Margaret Mittelback and Michael Crewsdon. And now I've strayed across the XY barrier, Mark Rotella's "Stolen Figs, and other adventures in Calabria" is fantastic. And - not funny - but Simone de Beauvoir did a really interesting book about four months in "America, Day by Day." And Harriet McBryde Johnson's "Too Late To Die Young: Nearly True Tales From a Life" is the sort of book that a lot of people won't pick up because they think it'll be a downer the minute they realize it is about a woman fighting for the rights of the disabled, and miss a very funny book, and a new perspective on life - call it "wheelchair travel," I guess.

I love and second the suggestion for "Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life!"